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Before I worked @ my current job hacking together DSLs I was a postie in Canada while going to school. Those new trucks are almost exactly the same as the one's
by pakled_engineer 12y ago
Before I worked @ my current job hacking together DSLs I was a postie in Canada while going to school. Those new trucks are almost exactly the same as the one's used here, but left-hand drive. Problem w/right-hand drive is the enormous blind spot where you don't see people stepping off the curb in front of your truck or cyclists using a 4 way stop. Look at the picture of the guy in the older truck, there's 2 beams obstructing his view and the side mirrors (the mirrors on the left side are the same size as the right side). When you pull up to a 4 way stop and glance over to the right anybody on a bicycle is perfectly obstructed by the double mirrors and double beams. They of course go first and you think you're clear to go and almost hit them every time. This happened so much we had to roll down the windows and actually stick our heads out to look to see who was on the right in an intersection. Probably something to think about when they design these vehicles.
Canada Post are also concentrating on parcels and not caring so much any more about lettermail or physical spam as a result are making $200+ million per quarter in profit now as Fedex and UPS losing business to them.
They are also contracting out somebody to build them new devices and dumping Microsoft handheld scanners for something else, which they haven't decided upon yet. If you run such a corp should probably start shilling your services to them.